NAB seeks help of NUML students in drive against corruption

Islamabad
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Director General (Awareness and Prevention) Aliya Rashid has said that corruption is one of the major challenges and it must be checked and controlled with determination and resolve at the national level, from grassroots to the top.
She was delivering a lecture at the National University of Modern Languages (NUML).
In her lecture, she analysed the main causes of the scourge of corruption and said it was eating the social fabric of the nation. The country would make much faster progress in all fields, if the nation was able to overcome the menace of corruption, she observed.
Aliya Rashid said that the National Accountability Bureau has launched a nationwide campaign to raise awareness among people about corruption in terms of its causes, its magnitude and dimensions, the real nature of the challenge and needed strategy to fight the scourge with resolve. People should have firm belief that corruption could be defeated through participation of all segments of society.
She said that the NAB’s awareness campaign against corruption is based on the slogan ‘Say No to Corruption’.
She said “What we all need to learn is that all people are stakeholders in facing the challenge of corruption. Corruption causes colossal damage to the country’s economy. It harms national institutions. It is the main hurdle in the socio-economic progress. Above all, corruption erodes the concept of the role of law and due process of justice in the country.”
Aliya Rashid believed that students, especially those studying in universities, would play a leading role in the NAB’s campaign against corruption.
Meanwhile, Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Hiroshi Inomata was the chief guest at the Annual Cultural Show of the National University of Modern Languages Japanese Language Department.
In his speech, the ambassador said, he was highly impressed by the proficiency of the NUML students in the Japanese language.
Speaking on the occasion, National University of Modern Languages Rector Major General (r) Masood Hassan said that NUML was playing a vital role in the teaching of foreign languages, including Japanese language.